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Welcome
to Bamboo Garden,a bamboo nurseryPlease call 503-647-2700 to order, or
email
bamboo@bamboogarden.com
and our experienced
staff will be happy to answer any inquiries you have.
We welcome
visitors to our nursery.We specialize in bamboos, both rare and common, at reasonable
prices, serving retail, wholesale, and mail order markets. Bamboo Garden has
been growing bamboo since 1980. Now, withover 300 bamboo varietiesat our 20 acre farm near Portland, Oregon, we maintain the most diverse bamboo
collection in the United States. We have a special interest in cold-hardy clumping bamboo and
giant timber bamboo.
Our
informative website is a useful resource. Browse through the categories listed
above for accurate descriptions and many high quality photos of our bamboo. We
are confident we can provide the bamboo that best suits your needs, while
sharing our knowledge so that you can make an informed decision. We provide
bamboo for many commercial and residential landscapes throughout the United
States.learn more about Bamboo Garden...

We are at the nursery
Monday,
but are busy with shipping orders. It is usually possible to make an
appointment for Monday, place or pick up
orders, but please call
in advance. Regular hours Tues -Sat. 9-4.

The nursery location is 6.5
miles north of North Plains, 20 miles west of Portland, Oregon. Typically, it takes 30 to 45 minutes to reach us
from the city. Some customers
can take longer than anticipated, so please give yourself plenty of time,
especially if you have a large project. Sometimes, especially Saturday, we can
get very busy. If
your time is limited, please let us know, and we will try to serve you as soon
as possible.

Shangri La project in Vancouver BCClick on photo for larger imagesTall
Phyllostachys vivax at Bamboo Garden, wrapped and ready to ship......to the job site, planted along the main stair way and courtyard.

We are available for consultation and presentations.
There is no fee for presentations to most groups. For on-site consultation for bamboo installations or problems, please contact
us for rates.

Please look at the bamboo descriptions and photos that we have available and
e-mail us with your wish list and questions or call us at 503-647-2700.
Be sure to include your zip code so we can figure your shipping cost. We will
reply as to availability and cost and any other pertinent information. We
accept payment by check, cash, or credit card. Avoid sending credit card info
by e-mail. We look forward to providing generous bamboo knowledge and helping
you actualize bamboo ideas. We appreciate constructive criticism and are
always looking for ways to improve; if their is any way we can better serve
your needs, please let us know.

We welcome visitors to the nursery!Visiting the BambooGarden (click link for map)

Photo copyright: Noah Bell, Bamboo GardenNew Moso Shoots, April 4thAbout Bamboo GardenWe started growing bamboo in
1980 and joined The
American Bamboo Society (ABS) that same year. We helped
establish the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the society and have served on the
board of directors of both. Ned Jaquith, the late founder of Bamboo Garden, was elected
in 2006, as vice president of the
ABS and has been awarded Honorary Lifetime Membership due to over 25 years
of whole-hearted efforts and generous bamboo knowledge. Ned Jaquith was one of the
most significant bamboo growers, collectors, and promoters of our time. In
addition to his amazing and diverse collection of bamboo, which evolved into
our 20-acre nursery, he was a smart and generous person with a great sense
of humor and goodwill. He will be greatly missed among bamboo lovers, the
horticultural community, and his friends and family. We are very fortunate
to be able to continue the nursery operation, Bamboo Garden, and provide the same level of service,
expertise, and enthusiasm for bamboo as our founder.

The nursery is
managed by Noah Bell, with over twelve years experience working closely with
bamboo in the landscape and nursery trade, and managing Bamboo Garden since
2004. His bamboo photos and
articles have been published by the ABS and German Bamboo Society (EBS) and
Paul Whitakers book: Practical Bamboos. He is responsible for overseeing the
production of about 300 different types of bamboo, maintaining our 20 acre nursery, and providing positive direction
for our staff. We specialize in hardy clumping species, as well as hardy giant timber
bamboos, and have been at the forefront of introducing new species into the
horticulture trade. See this link for our
total collection. and this page
for our regularly available species:
price list. We
have supplied bamboo for many large commercial landscaping projects including:
Tacoma Zoo, Portland Classical Chinese Garden, Portland Japanese Garden,
Oregon Zoo, Wellesley College in MA, Wayne Morse Courthouse in Eugene, OR,
Asia Trail of National Zoo in Washington DC, Shangri La Project in Vancouver,
BC, and many others. We work closely with
landscaping companies, providing healthy and beautiful bamboo for commercial
and residential landscapes,
locally and afar. Finally, a huge thank you to all of our customers, without
your support and continued business, this would not be possible...

Our largest project to date is the Asia Trail for the National Zoo in
Washington DC as designed by The Smithsonian. Between February and June we worked tirelessly to put together a massive collection of bamboo
meeting the criteria for this ambitious project. By mid June we had three, 53
foot semi trucks, packed full of our bamboo, ready to travel to Washington DC,
and be incorporated into the
Asia Trail
design.
It was a challenging, yet very rewarding task, working together among our
staff and with our customers, seeing the project (and bamboo) grow from start
to finish and achieving success in the landscape. The future looks bright for
bamboo and we hope to be considered a reliable source, from the smallest mail
order, to large-scale bamboo design, to other nurseries, and garden centers.Read the
introduction to Bamboo Garden by
Author, Ted Jordan Meredith. read more
history of Bamboo Garden...Bamboo Garden, our 20 Acre Nursery(for photo tour: click on link
or picture)click on photo to see larger imageGrove of giant
Moso on Avery Island,
Lousiana.American Bamboo Society
annual convention, 2011

Bamboo for Gardens
by Ted Meredith $30(also see the Forward
Ted wrote for our catalog)

Ornamental Bamboosby David Crompton$30

Nancy Moore Bess is a friend and fellow bamboo lover. You can check out
her book and other things on her website.www.nancymoorebess.com

A
Compendium of Chinese Bamboo by the China Forestry
Publishing House
This is the most complete list of bamboos native to China.It contains accurate technical descriptions of 39 genera
and over 500 species,with over 400 color photographs. Great coffee table book.Hard to find, not printed in the United
States.It does not contain information about gardening with bamboo;
the books listed above cover that subject thoroughly. A must for collectors or bamboo enthusiasts!$150 .00
to order any of the books, call 503-647-2700